Horace Traubel correspondence, 1897-1917.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Traubel, Horace, 1858-1919.

Contributor:

Becker, Maurice, 1889-1975.

Bruno, Guido, 1884-1942.

Burroughs, John, 1837-1921.

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915.

Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950.

Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966.

Meltzer, Phyllis.

Quinn, John, 1870-1924.

Small, Herbert.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Correspondence.

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by David J. Holmes Autographs (Philadelphia), 1988.

Physical Description:

14 items (18 leaves)

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 21 Folder 9

Place of Publication:

1897-1917.

Biography/History:

Traubel was an American author, essayist, poet, and publisher. He was one of seven children born 19 December 1858 in Camden, New Jersey to Maurice and Katherine Grunder Traubel. Horace Traubel married Anne Montgomerie (1864-1954) in 1891. The couple had two children, a daughter Gertrude and a son Wallace, who died at the age of five. Traubel published a monthly literary magazine from 1890 until his death in 1919 entitled The conservator. He was a close personal friend of Walt Whitman and Traubel became Whitman's literary executor and biographer writing the nine volume work Walt Whitman in Camden.

Summary:

Comprises letters to Horace Traubel from the following correspondents: Maurice Becker, Guido Bruno, John Burroughs, Elbert Hubbard, Mitchell Kennerley, Alfred Kreymborg, Phyllis Meltzer, John Quinn, and Herbert Small. Some correspondence concerns Traubel's writings on Walt Whitman, see letters from John Burroughs and Mitchell Kennerley. One letter from Kreymborg discusses Whitman.

OCLC:

1049301159